Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-20
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ference and weighs fifteen pounds.
The women of New York have
been granted more patents than their
sisters in any other State. The women
of Massachusetts, Ohio. Indiana and
Wisconsin rank next in order.
What wonderful patience those
fishermen have!' exclaimed an idler
to passing friend. ''Here Ihave been
watching that fellow for three whole
hours, and he hasn't yet had bite"
French Fan.
There lives in Troy, Mo-, a little
girl about eight years old whose head
is almost an iron1 ray, and it is steadi-
ly and perceptf ~ growing grayer,
and the presenf publications are that
long before she reaches womanhood
her once raven black hair will have be-
come snow white. Fright caused the
change in color.
There is in Connecticut savings
banks over $75. 600 which has remain
ed without claimants for over twenty
years. Of this $21, 900 is held by the
Society for Savings in Hartford, ST.
900 by the New London Savings Bank,
S12. 500 by the Norwich Savings Bank.
So. 600 to the Bridgeport Saving Bank.
81, 900 by the Middletown. and not far
from $4, 900 by the Nowalk.
"A plant has been discovered in
India which is said to destroy the
power of tasting sugar. 1t will be
useful in counteracting a morbid
appetite for sweetmeats, which is an
active promoter of indigestion. An
other plant found in Madras destroys
the relish for cigars and tobacco.
Thus two important curatives are
added to the materia medica.
Budget.
"A young financier. aged four, who
was given five cents for every mouse
caught in small trap. finally asked
leave to spend the proceeds. The
nurse was told to go wherever he led
her. to see what he proposed buying.
He passed all the toy and candy shops.
but paused before a hardware store,
and pointing to the window exclaimed.
triumphantly: Il buy more mouse.
trap. Fannyr'
The marriage of Herman Gold
stein to Rosa Gutenberg, both Rus
sian jews, in Grand Forks, ID. T.,
Tuesday evening. called together
about one thousand people. The
couple, headed by a cornet band and
followed by two hundred people,
marched through the principal streets.
the walks on either side being
thronged with spectators. After the
ceremony about three hundred people
partook of supper, after which wine
and beer were dealt out freely.
"A man dug well twenty-five feet
from eucalyptus tree, lined it with
cement, and placed over it a substan-
tial cover. The water was carried TO
the house from the we'll in wooden
pipe. In that wooden pipe was
knot-hole. In time the we'll began to
give out. The water, too, was &C.
quiring strange taste. Explorations
developed the fact that the we'll had
been filled up with masses OF eucalyp-
tus roots. The tree had run q root
straight for the knot-hole, twenty-five
feet of. and by that method gained
the we'll itself. Boston Budget.
-Krupp's great gun for the Italian
navy weighs 118 tons, is 45 feet long,
and its internal caliber is nearly Is
inches, rifled with 90 spiral turns. It
throws a steel projectile weighing
nearly ton, with charge of cwt-
of brown prismatic powder, having an
initial Velocity of GA yards in a
second and range of nearly miles;
the shot can penetrate steel armor-
plate So inches thick Immediately at
the mouth of the gun, and plate 20
inches thick, it is estimated, at dis
lance of a mile or more. Public
Opinion.
Juan Panadero gives very funny
account of the performances of the
Mexican Indians in Guadalajara on the
LIST of September. the day on which
the law compelling them to wear pam
falcons went into effect. The balco-
mics were full of pretty girls, watching
and laughing at the antics Of the
aguadores, cargadores, carboneros,
etc, as they went about their respect
i've duties Some of the men got their
pantaloons on wrong side before, 9TH
ers did not know how to use the pock-
cts, and others walked very awkward
~. The Indians have finally accepted
the new order Of things with great
good humor after the usual preiimi-
nary grumbling